Mysteries of modern life

[Joe Allonby]

I think Santorum is a rarity in that he is a true believer. Bachmann
too. Most of right wing guys are disingenuous. They know that their
rhetoric is tautology. Lower taxes don't produce prosperity.
Government spending actually creates jobs. Reaganomics was a disaster.
This country wasn't founded by Christian zealots. There is no danger
of Sharia law.  Obama wasn't born in Kenya. They just play the
Straussian game.



On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> The p-list isn't big on electoral politics but one thing I'm always
> wondering about is where extreme right wing Republican would-be-candidates
> can possibly be coming from.
>
> One answer came in a fascinating front page story in this morning's Times.
> How many times do you run across a woman who (in later life) had a seven
> year affair with the obstetrician who delivered her, that doctor also being
> a prominent Pittsburgh abortion provider. Well, Karen Santorum did, and only
> gave up that love after meeting Rick Santorum--the rest being history.
> Rather miraculously she returned to her estranged family and their ancestral
> Catholic faith, and Rick experienced a big bolster to his lukewarm faith as
> well. And after not too much soul searching they found themselves joined up
> with the Ubers, a group Gary Will says are not Catholics but Papists, who
> seemingly get their marching orders direct from Rome. There's no shortage of
> such types around Washington, most famously an enclave of them in the
> upscale suburb of Great Falls, Virginia. They attend St. Catherine of Sienna
> Catholic Church where they can hear Mass in Latin. They send their kids to
> Opus Dei Schools, etc. etc. Justice Scalia is prominent among them.
>
>
> Strange and seemingly true. but can it possibly explain anything?
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/us/politics/from-nominal-catholic-to-clarion-of-faith.html?pagewanted=2&hp
>
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